# procedure
## English
### Etymology

From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒə/
* (US) IPA: /pɹəˈsid͡ʒɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːʒə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: pro‧ced‧ure

### Noun

procedure (countable and uncountable, plural procedures)
* A particular method for performing a task.
** 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
* A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
* (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
    Ensure that you follow procedure when accessing customers' personal information.
* The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
** 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:Gracious procedures.
* (obsolete) That which results; issue; product.
** 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and the Procedure of Earth (as Tile, Stone, &c.) that yeeldeth any Moss or Herby Substance.
* (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
* (medicine) A surgical operation.

#### Synonyms

* (method): algorithm, method, process, routine
* (set of established forms or methods of an organized body): protocol
* (computing): function, routine, sub, subroutine, method (although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages)
* (medicine): operation

#### Hyponyms

* administrative procedure
* (computing): stored procedure

#### Derived terms

* Arndt-Eistert procedure
* Bobbitt procedure
* civil procedure
* collection procedure
* criminal procedure
* Davydov procedure
* Evans procedure
* Fontan procedure
* Frey's procedure
* Harada-Ito procedure
* Hartmann's procedure
* Ing-Manske procedure
* Krukenberg procedure
* Lowry process
* Mitrofanoff procedure
* Montreal procedure
* Nuss procedure
* [[obliterative procedure process: Edeleanu process#English|obliterative procedure process: Edeleanu process]]
* parliamentary procedure
* procedure call
* procedure division
* procedure mask
* procedure word
* process-server
* process-serving
* Puestow-Gillesby procedure
* Puestow procedure
* remote procedure call
* Scopinaro procedure
* security procedure
* Sigwart procedure
* single justice procedure
* surgical procedure
* voice procedure alphabet
* Whipple procedure

#### Related terms

* proceed
* process
* procession

#### Translations

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#### Further reading

* “procedure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “procedure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* reproduce

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French procedure.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌproːsəˈdyːrə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pro‧ce‧du‧re
* Rhymes: -yːrə

### Noun

procedure f (plural procedures)
* procedure

#### Derived terms

* afzettingsprocedure

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: prosedur

### Anagrams

* produceer, producere

## Italian
### Noun

procedure f
* plural of procedura

## Old French
### Noun

procedure oblique singular, f (oblique plural procedures, nominative singular procedure, nominative plural procedures)
* procedure (particular method for performing a task)

#### Related terms

* procés, proces
* proceder

#### Descendants

* → English: procedure
* French: procédure